Mikey and Nicky

The best American film of the 1970s you've never seen. Only in cinemas

One of the masterpieces of American cinema of the 70s, which in Poland is just waiting to be discovered. Mikey and Nicky were born in creative pains: filming took as much as 110 days, there was an incredible amount of footage, and editing took two years. Elaine May's gangster tragicomedy about two friends and professional betrayal is an intimate nighttime odyssey set in a cluttered Philadelphia — the “city of brotherly love” that Sylvester Stallone's Rocky ran the same year.

May, the godmother of American improvised comedy, was in that decade the only woman to direct films for Hollywood studios. Thanks to her stubbornness and tireless inventiveness, we received in Mikey and Nicky an unforgettable performance by two masters: Peter Falk, that is, the famous lieutenant of Columbo, and John Cassavetes, the guru of American independent cinema. Get ready for the laughter that traps you in your throat and the conversations of buddies who are one step away from the cringe.

“No one will kill you like your best friend.” — Michał Oleszczyk, SpoilerMaster